Treat And Prevent Diabetes With 10 Simple Home Remedies

Home Remedies For Diabetes

Diabetes mellitus, or diabetes is a metabolic disease in which one has really high sugar content in the blood, either because the pancreas fails to produce sufficient insulin or because the cells fail to respond well to the insulin produced. When one’s sugar content in blood is high, the person will deal with frequent urination (polyuria), increased thirst (polydipsia) and increased hunger (polyphagia). So, there are three maintypes of diabetes.

Types Of Diabetes List

1. Type 1 diabetes

This results from the failure of the pancreas to produce insulin and will require the patient to inject insulin or wear an insulin pump.

2. Type 2 diabetes

This is due to insulin resistance , a condition in which the cells fail to respond to the insulin produced and sometimes can be added with insulin deficiency. Treatment of diabetes type 2 covers more of home remedies than medications.

3. Type 3 diabetes, the gestational diabetes

This occurs when a pregnant woman has a very high glucose level in the blood and the pancreas fails to produce enough insulin to transport the overproduced glucose to the cell.

How To Figure Out Whether You Have Diabetes?

Symptoms of diabetes

There are three tests to help you clarify this. Doctors normally use these three methods to identify different forms of diabetes :

When the level of glucose or blood pressure becomes high, damage to the nerves will occur. This can lead to digestion problems, erectile dysfunction and loss of feeling. Loss of feeling can be very dangerous. This is because the pain receptors will fail to sense pain, allowing injuries to go unnoticed which they may lead to serious infections and amputations.

4. Eye disease (diabetic retinopathy)

Most diabetes patients will experience retinopathy in which a patient will experience a reduced vision or sometimes blindness. Blindness only occurs when glucose levels remain high for a long term.

Women with any types of diabetes hold the risk of bringing damage to the organs of the fetus. Besides that, the child may also experience a sudden drop in the glucose level after birth and has a high risk of developing diabetes in future.

Home Remedies To Improve And Prevent Diabetes

1. Bitter gourd juice

The perfect remedy for diabetes definitely. This is proven to bring down the sugar level, and prevent diabetes at the same time. All you got to do is blend a bitter gourd with some water and then strain it into a glass. If you’re diabetic, then you should drink a glass of it every day, with an empty stomach. If you’re not (but with a family history of diabetes), then you should try taking this every now and then to prevent it.

Gooseberry juice helps a lot in cutting down your blood sugar level. You can get it in stores. You have to consume this at least twice a day depending on the types of diabetes. It is said that people with type 2 have to consume this dink more to make the cells more sensitive to insulin.

3. Honey

Replace sugar with honey instead in your coffee, tea or so on. Honey is save to consume but however bearing in mind that it is the amount of carbohydrate and starches intake that matters, not the sugar. Honey is also a type of carbohydrate. So you might want to count your total carbohydrate intake per day. And also, make sure to consume pure honey (without addition of glucose, cane sugar, malt and starch).

Eat guavas to cut down your blood sugar levels. But remember to peel the skin before having one. A recent study has proven that having guava with its skin can increase one’s sugar level in the blood. Eating guava frequently can also help to prevent diabetes.

5. Neem shoots

This is the one of the best yet diabetes remedies I have ever known so far. It help amazingly in increasing the sensitivity of cells to insulin and lowers down the level of glucose in blood at the same time. Take the juice of the neem shoots on an empty stomach for best results.

Ginseng too helps in clearing unnecessary glucose content in the blood. Boil ginseng with water. Take this drink frequently and there, you’ll see a decrease in your diabetes level. And like any other diabetes remedies, make sure to take this on an empty stomach.

7. Betel leaves

These leaves have been found to have anti-diabetic properties and helps a lot in treating this dreadful disease. Boil five to seven betel leaves with 3 cups water, and strain it into a glass. Drink this twice every day and your sugar level will be lowered down within just two weeks.

8. Dry, matured petai seeds

Petai is an Asian plant that contains a lot of nutrients and helps curing diseases like high blood pressure, cholesterol problems and also diabetes. Stir around the seeds of petai on a pan but without using oil until it becomes a little dark and crispy. Later, blend the seeds until it turns into coarse powder form. Mix 3 tbs of the powder with a glass of hot water and drink it like coffee. Repeat this every day and you shall see a drop in your sugar level.

Blend a tomato with a tsp of yeast with a cup of water. Take this drink every day for best results. Remember to drink it immediately after blending. This one of the rarest diabetes remedies, but is worth the try. Some people can be allergic to yeast, so they might want to consider trying other remedy.

10. Take Plenty of water

Water will help clear and dilute all the unwanted sugar in your blood. You should drink at least 10 glasses of water per day if you’re diabetic. And each time you take a coffee or tea (with sugar), remember to drink two cups of water afterwards to clear the sugar concentration in your blood.

We have shared with you everything regarding diabetes that we know. It is crucial that you keep your sugar reading updated every week to ensure it is in a moderate level. Make sure you go on a complete diet and avoid consuming too much of carbs. If there are any other home remedies to prevent diabetes that you know, do share them with us in HNBT.

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Keerthana is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Healthnbodytips.com. With over five years of blogging experience in the niche of health and beauty, she is a true believer of traditional and natural remedies and practices. She is also equipped with some of her native Malaysian remedies that have been passed down from generation to generation. You can find her on Google+ @Keerthana Nair.